Every reliable news piece needs to include the “what, why, when and where” of the story. It was not reported that the ship carried climate change scientists not just tourists or “passengers” (everybody but the crew are “passengers”). This wasn’t corrected until the omission was just too untenable. Fox News and the other news sources saw to that.

MSNBC then ran a piece defending this bias as a justifiable defense against some evil “right wing cabal” and then attempted to shame climate skeptics because MSNBC claimed these scientists risked their lives to shore up (bogus) climate change data.

The MSNBC coverage was too rich a target to ignore. Beck mocked them, Rush mocked them, Fox mocked them and lots of unbiased journalists mocked them. The scorn heaped on MSNBC was well deserved.

Senator Feinstein recently suggested that journalists be licensed. While this is generally a real bad idea, in the case of MSNBC journalists, it might be reasonable.